We propose Neural Actor (NA), a new method for high-quality synthesis of humans from arbitrary viewpoints and under arbitrary controllable poses. Our method is built upon recent neural scene representation and rendering works which learn representations…

Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting...

Booking.com said on Friday that it will repay the 65 million euros it received in Dutch State aid, national broadcaster NOS said.

YouTube now uses homegrown Argos VCUs

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I my previous blog post, I documented how one might proceed to compute the number of digits of an integer quickly. E.g., given the integer 999, you want 3 but given the integer 1000, you want 4. It is effectively the integer logarithm in base 10. On computers…

Usage-based pricing (aka consumption-based pricing) is a popular pricing strategy, especially among developer-focused startups. Amazon AWS…

We're announcing new enforcement protocols for exceptional circumstances and confirming the time-bound penalty for Mr. Trump’s accounts.

Here are two theorems from game theory, which initially seem to contradict each other. By comparing them, we can uncover some hidden nuance…

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In this series, we will explore how to write a compiler for a small subset of C to LLVM in Haskell. Our language, Micro C, is basically a small subset of real C. We'll have basic numeric types, a real bool type, pointers, and structs. At the end of the series…

A case study of how Elixir is being used at Mozilla.

The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the

At some point, the house of cards begins to topple over. It’s no secret that the x86 processor architecture is almost aged enough to collect a pension. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a creaking old bit of wheezing ironmongery that, had the gods…